The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

Abstract The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech identifies ten US “Megapolitan Areas”—
clustered networks of metropolitan areas that exceed 10 million total residents (or will pass …

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic
system composed of twenty-three'megapolitan'areas that will dominate the nation's economy …

The huge population losses that characterized many older, larger US cities during the 1960s
and 1970s slowed and in some cases ceased during the 1980s and early 1990s. Periodic …

This article explores target marketing as a means to identify which middle‐income
suburbanites may relocate to central cities. The most targetable populations reside near …

This article presents data on the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States to
compare the metropolitan population density in the eastern and western parts of the country …

This study investigates the relationships between neighbourhood change and spatial
transformation in the North Carolina Piedmont region between 1980 and 2010. The …

This article examines the co-constitutive relationship between ideology and geography in
three editions of the educational computer game The Oregon Trail, arguing that the game …

Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper
Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to …

The natural environment shapes North American settlement patterns by pulling people
toward natural resources and amenities and, to a lesser extent, pushing them away from …